Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created

Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"

by James Lapine
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created

Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"

by James Lapine

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Overview

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic musical Sunday in the Park with George

Putting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George. In 1982, James Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his senior and already a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. Shortly thereafter, the two decided to write a musical inspired by Georges Seurat’s nineteenth-century painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Through conversations between Lapine and Sondheim, as well as most of the production team, and with a treasure trove of personal photographs, sketches, script notes, and sheet music, the two Broadway icons lift the curtain on their beloved musical. Putting It Together is a deeply personal remembrance of their collaboration and friend - ship and the highs and lows of that journey, one that resulted in the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning classic.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374200091
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 08/03/2021
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 517,696
Product dimensions: 8.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

JAMES LAPINE is a preeminent director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has been nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won on three occasions for Best Book of a Musical (Passion, Falsettos, and Into the Woods). He has also won five Drama Desk Awards, a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and a Peabody Award, among other honors. He has been inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the Mr. Abbott Award for lifetime achievement in theater.

Table of Contents

Prelude
Dramatis Personae

From Ohio to Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim Goes Off-Broadway
Lapine Goes Broadway
The Booth Theatre
Finale

Sunday in the Park with George

Acknowledgments

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